As you report, more than 60,000 people in Mogadishu have been driven from their homes in the past few weeks and about 200 civilians have been killed. Somalia is also in the grip of its worst drought in more than a decade. Young children are suffering from preventable diseases. More aid is urgently needed.

Somalia usually makes the news because of pirate attacks, but the chaos on land creates the conditions for piracy to prosper at sea. We hope, on the back of Ghaith Abdul-Ahad's brave reporting, that world leaders wake up to the Somalian crisis and ensure that aid reaches the millions who desperately need it. Jane CockingHumanitarian director, Oxfam